What is covered by Section 255?
Telecommunications equipment and customer premises equipment designed, developed and fabricated after the effective date of the section (February 8, 1996), including, but not limited to, telephones, pagers, fax machines, computers with modems, etc.
- Telecommunications equipment. Equipment, other than customer premises equipment, used by a carrier to provide telecommunications services, and includes software integral to such equipment (including upgrades).
- Customer premises equipment. Equipment employed on the premises of a person (other than a carrier) to originate, route, or terminate telecommunications.
- Telecommunications. The transmission, between or among points specified by the user, of information of the user's choosing, without change in the form or content of the information as sent and received.
- Telecommunications service. The offering of telecommunications for a fee directly to the public, or to such classes of users as to be effectively available directly to the public, regardless of the facilities used.
